Memories of life before war in Sudan Its been one year of conflict in Sudan. The people of Sudan feel forgotten as their country falls into a rampant spiral of violence and suffering. Life for many people in the country is no longer the same.

Iranian authorities are waging a large-scale campaign to enforce repressive compulsory veiling laws through widespread surveillance of women and girls in public spaces and mass police checks targeting women drivers, said Amnesty International ahead of International Women’s Day. Tens of thousands of...

The Huthi de facto authorities must urgently halt planned executions and end the persecution of people based on their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, said Amnesty International, after two Huthi-run courts in Yemen sentenced more than 40 individuals either to death, flogging...

The mass trial underway of 84 Emiratis, including prominent human rights defenders, flagrantly violates the defendants’ fair trial rightsand disregards fundamental legal principle by re-trying some defendants for the same charges they were convicted of a decade ago, Amnesty International said ahead...

Responding to the news that Lebanon’s Cassation Court suspended the arrest warrant against former public works minister, Youssef Fenianos, who was charged in September 2021 with homicide and criminal negligence by lead investigator into the Beirut port blast, Aya Majzoub, Amnesty International’s...

Reacting to alarming developments indicating that Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been arbitrarily detained in Iran since April 2016, is at grave risk of imminent retaliatory execution in the country, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa...

“As a Ukrainian researcher based in the UK, I’m not only researching the topics and themes relating to Russia’s aggression of Ukraine, I’m also relating to them and the country as my home. It lends a different perspective to the research, I think. “I have been working on upholding human rights in...

Although human rights are being gravely undermined in numerous countries across the world, Amnesty International’s supporters and activists have shown that change is always possible… Changing legislation July: Ghana’s Parliament voted to remove the death penalty from the 1960 Criminal and Other...

The Americas is the world’s deadliest region for those defending land, territory and the environment. As companies and authorities continue to destroy and pollute the places Indigenous People call home, communities are riddled with health issues, while livelihoods are destroyed and...

In times of armed conflict, respect for and protection of human rights take on a heightened significance. It is precisely during challenging moments in the chaos of war that the protection and promotion of human rights become even more essential. The first in our series of educational explainers...

This educational explainer is designed to build knowledge and understanding of how international humanitarian law, also known as the laws of war, must be applied in this conflict. It provides an overview of the obligations under international humanitarian law, concerning the recent events in Israel...

The Iranian authorities’ relentless onslaught against weekly peaceful protests by thousands of protesters and worshippers from Iran’s oppressed Baluchi minority in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan province, escalated on Friday 20 October, as security forces resorted to severe beatings, unlawful use...